MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Ustream today announces the first-ever Ustream Studio “Live from The Belmont” at South by Southwest, Austin’s largest interactive music festival. The Ustream Studio will combine the ideas and music at the heart of SXSW with the interactive power of live streaming. A free high-profile event open to the public and produced by nicefishfilms, no wristband is required for entry.

The Ustream Studio will showcase musicians, journalists, futurists, artists and thought leaders at The Belmont, 305 W. Sixth St., Austin, Texas. Whether enjoying the events locally or from across the world, Ustream will power all events live on Ustream.TV, the leading internet broadcasting platform that allows anyone with a camera and an internet connection to live stream.

Participants of the Ustream Studio from March 13 to 21 include Grammy® Best New Artist of the Year Adele, Peter Himmelman, Indigo Girls, Manchester Orchestra, The Von Bondies and Glasvegas.

With Ustream’s easy embed tools, users can share any of the live streams, allowing any website to host these compelling concerts and panels. For more information, visit www.ustream.tv/sxsw or the live stream at www.ustream.tv/channel/ustream-studio, or follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UstreamSXSW.

“Our intent is to create a space for big ideas to grow,” said Michael Sean Wright, founder of nicefishfilms and director of the Ustream Studio. “Ustream Studio is a phenomenal space to experience the excitement and collaboration that defines SXSW. An event on this scale -available to viewers across the globe, for free- is revolutionary to me.”

“The Ustream Studio underscores our vision to help people share moments and experiences with each other,” said Brad Hunstable, co-founder and president of Ustream. “We’re thrilled to be a partner in this event that integrates the power of live video with top-notch entertainment and talent.”

Offering a full range of food and drinks, the Belmont features a retro atmosphere with period furnishings, vintage fixtures, dark woods and design touches that evoke the glamorized 1960s era of Kennedy, Sinatra and Monroe.

About Ustream TV

Ustream.TV is the live interactive video broadcast platform that enables anyone with a camera and an Internet connection to quickly and easily broadcast to a global audience of unlimited size. In less than two minutes, anyone can become a broadcaster by creating their own channel on Ustream or by broadcasting through their own site, empowering them to engage with their audience and further build their brand. Click here to start a broadcast now or learn more about broadcasting. Ustream’s Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, seen by more than 10 million viewers worldwide, was listed as one of 2008’s top 10 Web videos (Source: AP). Ustream powered more than 3.8 million streams during the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

Follow Ustream on Twitter: http://twitter.com/UstreamTV

Read the blog: http://www.ustream.tv/blog

Ustream has received approval from Apple for its live video viewing application on the iPhone just in time to watch the Obama inauguration live from wherever you are. The application requires an open WiFi connection to show video. Audio is pretty good, picture quality is good but with a low frame rate. Of course, there is a lot of buffering, even over WiFi, and users can both read and leave comments in the chat stream. Get it here.

I have taken some screen shots, and posted on my Flickr stream.

Update: The application is only running on iPhone’s, and not iPod Touch’s like the App Store mentions.

In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Daniel Brusilovsky and Sam Levin (camera man for the day), visit Speck Products in Palo Alto, California and talk to Brent Baer, Director of Marketing for Speck.

Our friends at Speck have given us a 25% off discount code! Use the code ‘BUDDY25‘ to get 25% of everything at the Speck website when checking out!

Host/Executive Producer: Daniel Brusilovsky
Associate Producer: Sean Blake
Length: 11:57

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In this episode of the Apple Universe Podcast, Daniel Brusilovsky travels to Structure08 presented by Giga Omni Media. Daniel had the opportunity to talk to Andrew Clay Shafer (@littleidea) and Luke Kanies (@puppetmasterd) about their company, Reductive Labs, and their program called Puppet.

Hosts: Daniel Brusilovsky, Andrew Clay Shafer and Luke Kanies

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While covering Velocity 2008 for the Apple Universe Podcast, we stop by Hyperic, to learn about their product and their news announcement.

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• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
• shinywhitebox – Great software for Mac. The makers of iShowU, Stomp and now Chatter!
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Topics for Apple Universe #125:

Daniel recently bought a new printer, and he decided with his dad to get a new Wireless Networking Printer. Here is the un-boxing video, and the 125th episode of Apple Universe!

Apple Universe Episode #125 – Un-boxing: Brother HL-2170W from Daniel Brusilovsky on Vimeo.

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• GoToMeeting – web conferencing solution that will revolutionize how you communicate with your business associates, family and friends.
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Topics for Apple Universe episode #119:

Apple Universe joins Mazy Kazerooni, of UStream.tv, to talk about what his work at UStream.tv; the Teens in Tech event; and the almighty Twitter (where you can follow @danielbru and @mazy).

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Apple Universe #111 Topics:

Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson of Ryan is Hungry, a video blog which features the stories of individuals hacking everyday life. We talk about their video blog, video content on the web, and much more!

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Apple Universe #106 Topics:

In this episode of Apple Universe, Stu Helm joins us yet again to talk about some tips and tricks about podcasting! Also, check out Stu’s new blog! This show was brought to you by Talkshoe! We recorded the show LIVE at Talkshoe!

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